I have just received the following letter from Minister for Children and Social Care, Huw Irranca-Davies. I have only skim read it at the moment but I can see that it is ignoring all of our fears about the end of the three tier triangular system of support and disabled people’s rights under the UNCRPD. There […]
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The postcard campaign continues and spreads south. Massive thanks to Lynne and Osian, Castell Carreg Cennen, Carmarthenshire, Luke Roberson, Forester. Castell Carreg Cennen, Carmarthenshire, Lynne Parry and Phillip Thompson, Disability Officers, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire CLP and Llanelli CLP respectively and Olive Potts and Jo Potts, Disability Forum, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire CLP.
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Disability Arts Cymru have introduced me to the amazing Sophie McKeand – the gifted writer, poet, performer who is the current Young People’s Laureate Wales April 2016 – 2018, winner of the Out Spoken award for Innovation in Poetry 2015 and longlisted for the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition in 2014. Writing about the incredible collection of
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What my #SaveWILG campaign is in need of is a theme tune. I hit upon this idea while listening to Spotify in bed the other night. Andy Williams was featured in this addition from 1985 and was performing his classic hit Can’t Get Use To Losing You. Without permission, I have took it upon myself to change
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hroughout the 2017/18 football season I will be contributing to the Wrexham AFC matchday programme. I will be penning a feature called Memory Match, a look back at classic Wrexham games from the past that I will share in this blog over the coming months. This is the third successive season that I have been writing the Memory Match column. Indeed, when
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I am pleased to announce that the new WILG badges have arrived and are plastered with our new slogan: Where there’s a WILG, there’s a way. I hope you will agree that the badges look really good and it is an excellent slogan dreamed up by myself and my PA when we were messing about with ideas.
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Below I have issued a Press Release regarding the consultation on proposed Blue Badge parking charges in Wrexham. The deadline for this consultation is 29th March 2018. To respond to the consultation please click here. This really is our final chance to have our say. It is very annoying because the consultation results will probably
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Throughout the 2017/18 football season I will be contributing to the Wrexham AFC matchday programme. I will be penning a feature called Memory Match, a look back at classic Wrexham games from the past that I will share in this blog over the coming months. This is the third successive season that I have been writing the Memory Match column. Indeed, when
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Yesterday I was at Rhyl Town Hall for the Welsh Labour Deputy Leader Hustings between Carolyn Harris and Julie Morgan. I attended the meeting with an open mind but emerged as a staunch supporter of Julie Morgan. Both candidates were asked a set of six questions that had been submitted before the hustings, including mine
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With thanks to the wonderfully talented Brian Hilton.
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